The savior of all DMs and Players
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I grab relevant Japanese and butcher it until it sounds vaguely fantasy-Western. Never fails.
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One of the best parts about running Apocalypse World is that the gag of looking around the room and naming a character after something you see is perfectly in keeping with the setting.
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Gib Piblet at your service. Yes, of the Candle keep Piblets.
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I keep a pregenerated list of on-theme names and just cross them off as they get used. It’s the perfect crime.
I keep losing my list
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One of the best parts about running Apocalypse World is that the gag of looking around the room and naming a character after something you see is perfectly in keeping with the setting.
Ah yes, Line of Sight Name, The Pretender’s mo
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Our sessions usually go:
NPC: “I am known as Nebulox”.
PC: “… I’m gonna call you ‘Ned’”
DM: “WELL I GUESS ITS NED NOW”
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I grab relevant Japanese and butcher it until it sounds vaguely fantasy-Western. Never fails.
Let’s see… Ho Lee Sheet, I need to start doing that. But I guess my players will suspect Sum Tin Wong
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Sir Mordak: “Sir Gardakan, I am growing tired of waiting for our new party member’s arrival.”
Sir Gardakan: “I agree, Sir Mordak. But he could be useful as my squire!”
Boba Fett: “Hey guys! Wait for me!”
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I normally DM with my laptop, so or i have it ready to go or i leave a list of names open somewhere for this
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My DM used IKEA furniture names.
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Let’s see… Ho Lee Sheet, I need to start doing that. But I guess my players will suspect Sum Tin Wong
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/fake-asiana-pilot-names
While reporting on the crash during their noon newscast on July 12th, Bay Area Fox affiliate KTVU co-anchor Tori Campbell reported that the names of the pilots on board were “Sum Ting Wong,” “Wi Tu Lo,” “Ho Lee Fuk” and “Bang Ding Ow.”
On the evening of July 12th, the NTSB issued an apology via press release noting that a summer intern had acted on his own authority by confirming the fake names, and asserted that appropriate action would be taken to assure a similar error would not happen again.
As far as I know, the identity of the intern remains undisclosed.
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Our sessions usually go:
NPC: “I am known as Nebulox”.
PC: “… I’m gonna call you ‘Ned’”
DM: “WELL I GUESS ITS NED NOW”
“My name is Robert”
“…Dick”
“…”
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All my characters are either Wolfgang Grindelberg the Third of Abendbrücken (if I had time to prepare) or “uhhhhh… Bob?” if I haven’t.
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The Keyser Soze method.
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He tells you his name is Jimmothy Plimmothy.
May I call you Jim?
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“Listin, his name is Listin. His sister? Listelle. What? His parents? Sigh. Listanathon and Listhana. His dog? Rufus, now can we move along, please?”
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Without exception, all my gith characters are called Apo’stroph’e.
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seventh sanctum saved my ass so many times
